Identifier: generalbiographyv7pt2aiki (find matches)
Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
several statelybuildings, in widening the streets, in buildingnew churches, and in repairing others. On amagnificent, mausoleum which pope Sixtus V.erected to his memory, it is recorded in hispraise, that men of probity and men of learningwere his only relations. He was the author of Commentaries on some of the books ofScripture, and upon the four books of themaster of sentences, and several Sermons ■but none of thein have reached our times.His Constitutio pro Benedictinis was pub-lished at Paris in 15 19, octavo ; and is inserud,with five others, in the first volume of Cheru-binis Bullarium. Of his Letters, whichare said to fill three large manuscript volumesin the Vatican library, several have been pub-lished in the Annales of Bzovius and Wa-dingus, under the years 1:88, &c. and in th.e NICOLAVS dVINTVS, PAPA CGXIX ORIVNDVS EX AGRO GENVENSI. Vi\(U\m tcv Siinfft ^ifc6 %\\mm/ in Dcr JaM t^cr ?itjct)^unt>crtc(?c fn& flVPplfftc ^apfl: aup Dcm ©cbKt Dcr ^Statt ©rnua bumg.
Text Appearing After Image:
Eugenium IIII. refcrthicNicolaus. V, (nihil FoeliceAntipapaimpedkntc)Anno Mundi D. CCCCXIX. Chrifti M.CCCCL VII, GufbernavitFriderico III. ImperatorcGcrmanorum,annos VII.diesXIX. N I C ( 411 ) N 1 C appendix to tlie second volume of the Ia?t-mentioned annalist. PLillna. Cavii Hist.Lit. vol. II. sub, sxc. Schol. Dtipin. Aforcri.Mosh. Hist. EccL sac. xiii. par. ii. cap. it. sect.15. Bower.—I\I. NICHOF^AS V. pope, originally known bythe name of Ihomas ofSarzana, was the son ofa poor physician at Karzana, a small town onthe borders of Tuscany and the republic ofGenoa, whence he derived his surname. Ashe early discovered promising talents and alove for learning, he attracted the notice ofcardinal Nicholas Albergati, who took himunder his protection, and supplied him withthe expences necessary for pursuing his studiesat the university of Bologna. Here he appliedfo the different branches of academical learn-ing with extraordinary diligence and success,and acquired the character of being on

Note About Images